|
Data
about DCS licenses do not necessarily refer to final sales; they indicate
only that the State Department has granted permission for a possible sale.
The State Department estimates that about half of all export licenses
it grants result in actual deliveries.1
Table
1: 2000-2002
| Commodity |
2000
|
2001
|
2002
|
2003
|
|
Quantity |
License value |
Quantity |
License value |
Quantity |
License value |
Quantity |
License value |
| Agreements,
mfg. and tech. assistance |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Aircraft Attack
A-37 spare parts |
|
|
|
4,918 |
|
4,918 |
|
|
| Aircraft cargo
C-130 spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
4,000,000 |
|
|
| Aircraft spare
parts, miscellaneous |
|
30,439 |
|
4,000,000 |
|
8,110,182 |
|
172,237
|
| Ammunition raw
materials |
|
11,125 |
|
3,465 |
|
126,946 |
|
|
| Antennas (radio
and communications types) |
|
|
|
|
|
33,869 |
|
|
| Armor plate |
|
|
|
|
|
4,650 |
|
|
| Armored vests
(personnel) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Artillery fuzes |
|
5,850 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Binoculars |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Bomb detection
equipment |
|
|
|
|
|
21,600 |
|
|
| Carbine (All
Types) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
9
|
8,253
|
| Cartridges .22
cal through .50 cal |
5,526,000 |
128,770 |
16,774,300 |
1,325,769 |
14,373,150 |
798,421 |
11,182,800
|
986,137
|
| Cartridges 20mm
through 40mm |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Cartridges 40mm
through 75mm |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Cartridges impulse |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Chemical Agent
Detection Equipment |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
200
|
| Chemical agent
dispensing equipment |
|
|
|
|
|
225,000 |
|
|
| Chemical agents
and herbicides |
|
1,934,868 |
|
7,379,976 |
|
6,943,730 |
|
179,150
|
| Communications
equipment and components |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
298,321
|
| Computers (complete
full-scale models) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Crypto equip.
components and spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Crypto machines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Data privacy
devices |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Detonators |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Electronics
components and spare parts |
|
31,704 |
|
1,030 |
|
168,842 |
|
51,066
|
| Engine Jet T-56
series |
|
|
1 |
1,170,000 |
|
|
|
|
| Engine jet J-79
spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Engine spare
parts and components misc. |
|
|
|
|
|
352,819 |
|
|
| Explosives |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Fire control
system parts & components |
|
1,672 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Grenades hand
and weapon types |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Helicopter 205A-Bell
series |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Helicopter 206A-Bell
series |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Helmets pilot
(all models) |
15 |
10,695 |
8 |
6,848 |
11 |
8,745 |
1
|
1,107
|
| Helmets protective
(all models) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Inertial navigation
systems (all models) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Infrared viewer
spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
3,148 |
|
|
| Machine gun
(all types) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Magnetrons |
|
|
2 |
31,968 |
1 |
15,984 |
|
|
| Night vision
goggles |
|
11,925 |
|
29,600 |
|
|
|
99,541
|
| Night vision
scopes spares and components |
|
70,611 |
|
|
|
|
|
15,200
|
| Night vision
scopes (crew serve weapons) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Night vision,
AN/PVS-7A/B goggles |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Pistols and
revolvers |
187 |
44,365 |
3,206 |
1,093,125 |
1,505 |
530,669 |
3,328
|
1,362,529
|
| Pistols and
revolvers spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
10,462 |
|
221
|
| Propellants |
|
|
|
4,667 |
|
|
|
|
| Protective equip.
component parts |
|
|
|
2,800 |
|
|
|
4,410
|
| Protective equipment
(suits, gloves, etc.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Radar, AN/APS-145 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
2,778,000
|
| Radar systems
components and spare parts |
|
56,793 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Radio set (components
& spare parts) |
|
|
|
|
|
100,045 |
0
|
99,520
|
| Receiver/transmitters
(all models) |
|
|
1 |
25,000 |
|
|
|
88,473
|
| Rifle (non-military,
all types) |
105 |
16,466 |
804 |
303,612 |
327 |
66,085 |
308
|
66,270
|
| Rifle M-16 (all
models) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Riot control
equipment (police type eq) |
|
|
|
256 |
|
|
|
|
| Riot control
chemicals (anti-pers.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
870
|
| Satellites equipment
spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
76,500 |
|
|
| Ship components
and spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Small arms spare
parts (rifle and carbine) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Submachine guns |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Technical data
cat. I |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Technical data
cat. IV |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Technical data
cat. VII |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Technical data
cat. VIII |
|
|
|
|
|
50 |
|
|
| Technical data
cat. XI |
|
|
|
|
|
150 |
|
100
|
| Technical data
cat XII |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Technical data
cat XIII |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Technical data
cat XV |
|
|
|
120,000 |
|
240,000 |
|
|
| Torpedoes spare
parts and supp. equip. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Training equip
components and spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Traveling wave
tubes |
|
|
1 |
53,400 |
|
|
1
|
200
|
| Weapons spare
parts & components |
|
|
|
66,888 |
|
|
|
|
| Total |
|
2,355,283 |
|
15,623,322 |
|
21,842,815 |
|
6,211,804
|
Table
2: 1996-1999
| Commodity |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
|
Quantity |
License value |
Quantity |
License value |
Quantity |
License value |
Quantity |
License value |
| Agreements,
mfg. and tech. assistance |
|
|
|
|
|
1,250,000 |
|
|
| Aircraft spare
parts miscellenous |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,800 |
| Ammunition raw
materials |
|
14,445 |
|
3,072 |
|
59,074 |
|
145,409 |
| Armored vehicle
spare parts & sup equip |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Cartridges .22
cal though .50 cal |
6,301,620 |
321,695 |
4,244,455 |
827,957 |
7,998,000 |
1,073,144 |
1,924,000 |
836,514 |
| Chemical agent
dispensing equipment |
|
|
|
|
|
50,000 |
|
|
| Chemical agents
and herbicides |
|
522,425 |
|
316,382 |
|
233,894 |
|
575,100 |
| Crypto machines |
6 |
38,610 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Electronics
components and spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
2,020 |
|
|
| Electronic equip
(misc) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Explosives |
|
|
|
|
|
3,072 |
|
|
| Grenade launcher
(all models) |
|
|
|
52,700 |
|
|
|
|
| Grenades hand
and weapon types |
|
|
12,000 |
381,550 |
18,000 |
465,045 |
|
|
| Gyrocompass
components and spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
11,450 |
|
|
| Helicopter UH-1
series |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
1,230,000 |
| Helicopter unclassifiable |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Helmets pilot
(all models) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
16 |
15,296 |
| Missile spare
parts (non specific type) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Night vision
scopes spares and components |
|
|
|
|
|
6,900 |
|
|
| Oxygen masks
(all models) |
|
|
|
|
400 |
66,600 |
|
|
| Patrol boat |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Pistols and
revolvers |
4,393 |
1,775,388 |
9,472 |
4,575,578 |
24,093 |
8,531,958 |
13,139 |
4,286,264 |
| Pistols and
revolvers spare parts |
|
4,067 |
|
14,508 |
|
104,403 |
|
10,502 |
| Propellants |
|
|
|
19,156 |
|
|
|
|
| Rifle (non-military,
all types) |
80 |
20,000 |
222 |
217,900 |
160 |
94,950 |
103 |
31,869 |
| Rifle M-16 (all
models) |
22 |
18,348 |
|
|
50 |
44,150 |
|
|
| Riot control
chemicals (anti-pers.) |
|
|
|
849,648 |
|
|
|
|
| Riot control
equipment (police type EQ) |
|
|
|
|
|
62,000 |
|
|
| Ship components
and spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Small arms spare
parts (rifle and carbine) |
|
|
|
10,000 |
|
|
|
|
| Sonar systems
components and spare parts |
|
|
|
|
|
12,000,000 |
|
|
| Tank components
and spare parts |
|
|
|
28,722 |
|
71,200 |
|
|
| Technical data
cat. VIII |
|
|
|
100 |
|
|
|
|
| Technical data
cat. XI |
|
|
|
|
|
2,020 |
|
|
| Technical data
misc |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Vehicle military
components and spares |
|
|
|
18,259 |
|
12,780 |
|
19,800 |
| Weapons spare
parts and components |
|
|
|
1,445 |
|
|
|
|
| Total |
|
2,714,978 |
|
7,316,977 |
|
24,144,660 |
|
7,153,554 |
Sources:
1
United States, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, “Article: Revision
of US Arms Exports Data Series,” World Military Expenditures and Arms
Transfers 1997 (Washington: ACDA, 1997, revised January 1999) <http://www.acda.gov/wmeat97/commerce.pdf>.
2
United States, Department of State, Department of Defense, Foreign
Military Assistance Act Report To Congress, Fiscal Year 1996 (Washington:
September 1997).
3
United States, Department of State, Department of Defense, U.S. Arms
Exports: Direct Commercial Sales Authorizations for Fiscal Year 97
(Washington: August 1998): 1.
4
United States, Department of State, U.S. Arms Exports: Direct Commercial
Sales Authorizations for Fiscal Year 98 (Washington: July 1999): 26-7.
5
United States, Department of State, Office of Defense Trade Controls,
Report by the Department of State Pursuant to Sec. 655 of the Foreign
Assistance Act (Washington: 2000) <http://www.pmdtc.org/docs/rpt655_9_99.pdf>.
6
United States, Department of State, Office of Defense Trade Controls,
Report by the Department of State Pursuant to Sec. 655 of the Foreign
Assistance Act (Washington: 2002) <http://www.pmdtc.org/docs/rpt655_2000.pdf>.
Direct Commercial Sales (DCS): Ecuador
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